This is an analysis of Burns’s Statue At Irvine by Alfred Austin.
Yes! let His place be there!
Where the lone moorland gazes on the sea,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababba cdcddc efeffX ghghhg giXiig
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 110101 1011110101 1001011101 1110110 0010101 010001010001 111101 1111110001 1101010101 1011101 1011011 110101010101 010111 1001010001 1011110001 1010101 1010101 010111110110 100101 01010100111 1101010101 0101111 0110101 1001001110101 111101 0101011101 1001110001 1110111 10010111 1101011110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
his, and
